Small Pear #1

First of a series of four. 6" x 6" oil on panel.

Landscape project in progress

Above, Landscape with Olive Trees, oil sketch on canvas, 8" x 6".  Sold.

Below, alternate sketch in mixed media on paper, 6" x 4".  Sold.



I'm working with Dawn Ranagan of Magnolia Designs, whose client needs a piece of art to anchor a grouping on a particular wall. The existing theme and colors are Italian-inspired, so we're working with a warm-colored landscape of hills and olive trees.

The finished piece will be 36" x 24" and, of course, I'll post a photo here when it's completed.

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Duke the Boxer

Finished this morning; this is about 9" x 8", carbon pencil and pastels on brown paper.

In progess: Stillwater Griffin

I began this yesterday. It's based on a bas-relief sculpture I photographed in Stillwater, MN in October. Such a wondrous beast that I knew immediately I needed to make some paintings based on it.

These are 18" square wooden panels. They will be a set; I'll be using wax medium to create translucent, textured layers of paint. When they're finished I'll photograph them again and post.

Kitty portraits

Ted, top, and Max, above. Both 5" x 7" pastel on paper.

Indiana the Greyhound

12" x 9" oil on canvas, by commission for Indy's owner. Isn't she a lovely girl? She makes me happy.

Luther Hopkins Honda

Above, today's window, at the Kids' Play Area. Below, the snowman scene I painted yesterday.

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This just in: Swine flu is NO FUN.

I've been pretty much flattened for a week now. Mental function practically nonexistent.

This, however, cheers me up tremendously:

MUPPET BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

The other vids from the Muppet Studios folks are lots of fun, too, but I've been wanting a Muppet version of this song for ... enough years to qualify me for Serious High-Level Dorkdom.

Culture

On Sunday, 11/15, I went to Tea with Tarts and Tartuffe, an outing organized by Twin Cities TOSCA. Their events are always a lot of fun, and I got to learn a little about Moliere and watch a collegiate production of Tartuffe, which was a hoot.

The sketches are about 3" x 5", done in ballpoint pen in my little Moleskine notebook during the play. I was very taken with the costumes ans characters, so I did my best to catch a little of the feeling of them, and these are the results.

More Fruitiness!

Pleasant Company (Happy Pomegranates #2), oil on panel, 9" x 12"

Finished early this afternoon.